The Waffle is designed to mitigate major springtime flooding; what will the effects be on summer floods?
In recent years, major flooding has occurred as a result of intense thunderstorms during the growing season. Major damage to crops, as well as rural and urban properties, has occurred as a result of these summertime floods. Obviously, none of the culvert gates will be closed during the growing season so that the drainage of croplands will not be impaired after the threat of springtime flooding passes. Although the Waffle concept was designed to mitigate springtime flood events before most of the planting has occurred, we believe that the project results will be beneficial to those dealing with the problem of summertime flood events as well. The Waffle project’s models and databases will provide the water management professionals of the basin with a much-improved understanding of the drainage of the Red River Basin and subbasins. The water management tools provided by this project could be used to develop emergency action plans for extreme weather events in each subbasin. Although it is
